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An Essay on the Tragic (Hardcover, REV)
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An Essay on the Tragic (Hardcover, REV)
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
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Peter Szondis pathbreaking work is a succinct and elegant argument
for distinguishing between a philosophy of the tragic and the
poetics of tragedy espoused by Aristotle. The first of the books
two parts consists of a series of commentaries on philosophical and
aesthetic texts from twelve thinkers and poets between 1795 and
1915: Schelling, Holderlin, Hegel, Solger, Goethe, Schopenhauer,
Vischer, Kierkegaard, Hebbel, Nietzsche, Simmel, and Scheler. The
various definitions of tragedy are read not so much in terms of
their specific philosophies, but rather in the way their views
assist in analyzing tragedies with an aim to establish a general
concept of the tragic.
The second part presents exemplary analyses of eight tragedies:
Sophocles'"Oedipus Rex," Calderons "Life Is a Dream," Shakespeares
"Othello," Gryphius "Leo Armenius," Racines "Phaedra," Schillers
"Demetrius," Kleist's "The Schroffenstein Family" and Buchner's
"Danton's Death." The readings neither presuppose a concept of the
tragic determined by context (as in Hegel's idea of the conflict
between two orders of right), nor do they focus exclusively on the
texts explicit contents. Instead, they elaborate the dialectical or
aporetic structures at the heart of the tragic. The works analyzed
represent the four great epochs of tragic poetry: the age of Greek
tragedy; the Baroque era in Spain, England, and Germany; French
Classicism; and the age of Goethe.
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